What are we doing? We never go on car rides; I am so excited. I wonder where we are going‚ they never tell me anything when I ask. I can yell and yell but they just don’t understand. I don’t think I have been this excited in 15 years of living‚ well maybe besides what we did yesterday. Yesterday we went swimming‚ walking‚ and I even got a huge stake to eat. I got to do so many things that I never got to do before. It’s funny how they know when I am feeling bad and just take me out and have
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Candidate Name: Ana Cristina Zamudio Cortes Candidate Number: 001123-_ _ _ _ SESSION: MAY 2014 Teacher : Antony Geralis ANA CRISTINA ZAMUDIO WRITTEN TASK 1 001123- _ _ _ _ RATIONALE: During this course we had learned about Language and Mass communication. The Written task purpose is to involve the students to consider the way language is put to use in communication. I focused on the way that language is used in the media. Mass communication involving language
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“The way we never were” by Stephanie Coontz. She was born in late August 1944. She is an author‚ historian‚ and professor at Evergreen State College teaching history and family studies and was a Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families from 2001-2004. She has authored and co-edited many books about the history of the family and marriage including “The way we never were”‚ “The way we really are” and many more award winning books. “The way we never were‚” tells
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Analysis of the extract from “The fun they had” The story under the title "The Fun They Had" was written by a highly prolific American writer‚ one of the three grand masters of science fiction - Isaac Asimov. The key in this text is lyrical. The theme is probably "the influence of technology on the process of teaching." In this story the author uses colloquial speech and jargonized words‚ such as “gee‚ I guess‚ I betcha“ here‚ to show us that these children are rather ordinary‚ and looks similar
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The God We Never Knew and Jesus Camp both demonstrate that there are many images of Jesus and that there is a link between Jesus and God. Marcus J. Borg explains that there are two versions of Jesus and that within each version there are many different interpretations of Jesus. The first version of Jesus is pre-Easter Jesus and the second version of Jesus is the post-Easter Jesus. Borg states that “The pre-Easter Jesus is the historical Jesus” (84). This is the Jesus while he was still alive and
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The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so-called slacker genre. Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X’ers (people born between 1961 and 1981) (Casto‚ “What’s A Slacker Movie?”). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day-to-day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and the feel of
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Annie Murphy Paul presents an intriguing Ted talk with “What We Learn Before We Are Born”. She answers many questions‚ the most important being‚ when does learning actually begin? I agree that most people would blurt out an answer such as‚ when a child begins school or at birth. Her answer is more complex and harder to understand. It’s the nine months before birth. This study of what happens to the fetus before birth is called fetal origins. It’s a field of study that only developed around two
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Written assignment - "The fun they had" "The fun they had" is a science-fiction short story written in 1951 by Isaac Asimov. The text has its focal points on the human behavior as a response to the development of technology - human dependency of technology and how it has become a necessity in order to live a normal life. The text expresses‚ how the progression of technology have lead to the closed and therefore more "efficient" school system that Margie is a part of. As she reads the "real" book
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See Rocky Horror Like You’ve Never Seen It Before! The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event at the Kirby Center of Performing Arts is an event filled with community‚ care‚ and a uniqueness that is impossible to find anywhere else. Rocky Horror Picture Show is a famous tale to rock generations‚ it appears. Everyone knows about it; whether it be through the strange movie plotline itself or the seemingly stranger fanbase. This movie has brought about a whirlwind of controversy‚ and the lifelong fans couldn’t
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more than 500 books he published influential sci-fi works like I‚ Robot and the Foundation trilogy‚ The Naked Sun and Foundation’s Edge‚ The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science which was the encyclopedic work of science for the layman. The Fun They Had is also one of his marvelous works. The events of this story take place in distant future‚ 2157. There are no real schools here‚ the books printed on paper are replaced by screen books and human teachers are replaced by mechanical ones. The hero of
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